[ale] Accessing an MP3 player from Linux

[Jim Kinney]

Yuck. Glad I found the cheap Chinese ipod knockoff. :-)

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 10:35 -0400, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> Beware that some more recent MP3 players are not in fact USB mass
> storage devices but instead use a hideousity called "Media Transfer
> Protocol" ("MTP")
> ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol ). This is
> essentially a Windows Media protocol which is designed to facilitate
> the use of DRM.  It's possible to get your linux box to work with this
> stuff ( see for example
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/intrepid/man1/mtpfs.html ), but
> it's a PITA and my recourse was to return the gizmo to the store and
> buy a working one. Unfortunately the box often doesn't tell you this
> level of information about the player.
> 
> -- CHS
> 
> 
> 2008/10/28 Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
>         I have found most mp3 players can be seen as just a usb thumb
>         drive. Then I can drop song files into the folder usually
>         labeled music and it just works.  
>         
>         BTW: found a nice little player at Microcenter. 1GB styled
>         like the ipod shuffle for a whopping $15. The 4G model is only
>         $30. Both can also record using a built-in microphone.
>         
>         
>         
>         On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Tim Watts
>         <timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:
>                 Hi,
>                 
>                 I've inherited an MP3 player and I'd like to be able
>                 to interact with it from
>                 my SuSE 10.2 laptop. It's a ZEN Vision:M from
>                 Creative. It has a USB
>                 interface. Of course, the CD that comes with it has
>                 this clunky Windows
>                 software as the only means of interacting with it.
>                 
>                 Basically, I'd like to edit the playlists and use it
>                 as a source for playing
>                 MP3s thru my laptop. So either mounting it as a device
>                 and/or finding some
>                 software to allow me to interact with it is what I'm
>                 looking for. Nothing
>                 included on the SuSE distro that I can see.
>                 
>                 Tried connecting to it via Amarok to no avail but it
>                 wanted a pre-configured
>                 device to start with. Not sure how to bring that
>                 about.
>                 
>                 I know I could probably do some vmware thing to boot
>                 windows but that's a hell
>                 of a lot of software to load just to listen to music.
>                 
>                 Anyone else deal with this or something similar?
>                 
>                 Thanks in advance.
>                 
>                 
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